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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (461232)3/4/2009 9:15:08 PM
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>> 75% isn't an arbitrary figure. It's been done before in post-WWII history.

The max rate was 70% as recently as 1979, and I seem to recall it was 90% for MFS filing status at that time. It created a person who was married and filing separately could actually LOSE money for each incremental hour they worked.
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